Computer Fundamental Miscellaneous - Study Mode

[#636] ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) had huge advantage over Mark I because it used electronic valves in place of the electromagnetic switches. In the beginning, ENIAC was used for calculating the path of artillery shells. For which other was weapon design was it utilized?
Correct Answer

(A) hydrogen bomb

Explanation

Solution: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) had huge advantage over Mark I because it used electronic valves in place of the electromagnetic switches. In the beginning, ENIAC was used for calculating the path of artillery shells. For which other was weapon design was it utilized in hydrogen bomb.

[#637] Who was the father of Punched Card Processing?
Correct Answer

(C) Dr. Herman Hollerith

Explanation

Solution: Dr. Herman Hollerith was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting.

[#638] When did Hewlett-Packard Inc. Introduce its first HP-110 laptop computer?
Correct Answer

(A) 1984

Explanation

Solution: The Hewlett-Packard HP 110 (aka HP Portable) was an MS-DOS compatible portable computer released in 1984. It used a Harris 80C86 running at 5.33 MHz with 272 KB of RAM. It had an 80 character by 16 line monochrome (480 x 128 pixel) liquid crystal display, ran MS-DOS 2.11 in ROM, and had the application programs MemoMaker, Terminal Emulator and Lotus 1-2-3 in ROM. Source : wikipedia.org

[#639] The computer program language which is widely used in computer science and engineering and also in business is
Correct Answer

(C) PASCAL

Explanation

Solution: PASCAL : Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, which Niklaus Wirth designed in 1968–69 and published in 1970, as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.

[#640] A 'number crunching' computer is one that can handle
Correct Answer

(C) large volume of numbers

Explanation

Solution: A 'number crunching' computer is one that can handle large volume of numbers. Super computer also called number crunching computer.